Pocket

What is it?

Pocket is a free (with a paid Premium option) tool which allows you to “save interesting articles, videos and more from the web for later enjoyment. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device — phone, tablet or computer.” (https://getpocket.com/about).

The browser extension is available on Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera. The app version (available on iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Kindle Fire, Kobo) synchronizes with your account for offline reading. And you can also Pocket resources through other apps, including Twitter and Flipboard.

Pocket was developed by Nate Weiner and his team in San Francisco, and has been around since 2007.

What can it do?

In addition to saving online resources that you want to go back to at a later date, within Pocket, you can share your pocketed items with others, add tags (to enable searching), and archive items once you have read them. Pocketed resources are also automatically sorted as to whether they are Articles, Videos, or Images.